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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EYE , a See also:

market-See also:town and municipal See also:borough in the Eye See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Suffolk; See also:England; 941 M. N.E. from See also:London by the See also:Great Eastern railway, the See also:terminus of a See also:branch from the See also:Ipswich-See also:Norwich See also:line. Pop. (1901) 2004. The See also:church of St See also:Peter and St See also:Paul is mainly of Perpendicular See also:flint See also:work, with See also:Early See also:English portions and a See also:fine Perpendicular See also:rood See also:screen. It was formerly attached to a See also:Benedictine priory. Slight fragments of a See also:Norman See also:castle See also:crown a See also:mound of probably earlier construction. There are a town See also:hall, See also:corn See also:exchange, and See also:grammar school founded in 1566. See also:Brewing is the See also:chief See also:industry. The town is governed by a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 4410 acres. Eye (Heya, Aye) was once surrounded by a stream, from which it is said to have derived its name.

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Leland says it was situated in a See also:marsh and had formerly been accessible by See also:river vessels from See also:Cromer, though the river was then only navigable91 to Burston, 12 M. from Eye. From the See also:discovery of numerous bones and See also:Roman urns and coins it has been thought that the See also:place was once the See also:cemetery of a Roman See also:camp. See also:William I. gave the lordship of Eye to See also:Robert See also:Malet, a Norman, who built a castle and a Benedictine monastery which was at first subordinate to the See also:abbey of See also:Bernay in See also:Normandy. Eye is a borough by See also:prescription. In 1205 See also:King See also:John granted to the townsmen a See also:charter freeing them from various tolls and customs and from the See also:jurisdiction of the See also:shire and See also:hundred courts. Later charters were granted by See also:Elizabeth in 1558 and 1574, by See also:James I. in 1604, and by William III. in t697. In 1574 the borough was newly incorporated under two bailiffs, ten chief and twenty-four inferior burgesses, and an See also:annual See also:fair on Whit-See also:Monday and a market on Saturday were granted. Two members were returned to each See also:parliament from 1571 till 1832, when the Reform See also:Act reduced the membership to one. By the Redistribution Act of 1885 the See also:representation was merged in the Eye division of the See also:county. The making of See also:pillow-See also:lace was formerly carried on extensively, but practically ceased with the introduction of machinery.

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